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Originally Posted by jax01
I'm sure it's been mentioned, but I'll say it anyway.
Traumatic head injury can cause radical changes in personality.
Likes, dislikes, what kind of foods you like, all can be changed by significant head trauma.
Doesn't nessearilly have to be severe, or life threatening. But it can't be just a little bump on the knot either.
As others have said, the kind of splitting that causes DID happens in early childhood. But that dosen't mean a traumatic event or time of great stress can't cause the symptoms of DID to become hard to ignore, and reveal itself.
Coping with chronic pain and the stress chronic illness creates drove my Dissociation back to as bad as they were when I was a kid. I thought I had put it all behind me. And so, I wouldn't have to deal with it. I may have been wrong about that, but it doesn't matter as it's all worse than it ever was before. So , no choice. Gotta deal with it.
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Yes here where I live and work it is believed that many many mental and physical health problems carry the same symptoms that come with dissociative disorders including DID. its one of the reasons why the diagnostic criteria for DID is that all other mental and physical health problems that can cause the same symptoms must be ruled out.
yup we have to deal with what ever was served up to us in this diner of life. no you were not wrong about how you chose to deal with your problems, you just dealt with them with what ever tools you had available at the time you needed some help. now you are learning new ways to deal with your problems.
keep up the good work.